Official Exoteric Sigil of the ONA

Bringing The Mythos To Life
Misconceptions, Lies and Ignorance Regarding the ONA


Introduction


The past few years has seen an explosion of interest in the Order of Nine Angles, with new ONA nexions (groups/tribes etcetera) popping up all over the world, from New York, to Iceland, to Brazil, to Russia, to California, to London, to Serbia, to Romania, to Italy, to South Africa. In just over a year, the main ONA weblog recorded over 101,300 hits (as of February 2010 CE / 121 Year of Fayen).

It is therefore not surprising that articles and items about or concerning the ONA - often critical of it - regularly appear by courtesy of that modern medium of communication, the Internet.

But why bother? Why bother with trying to correct, or to counter, some of the ignorance and misconceptions - and often the prejudice - shown by those who have written about, or who have made comments about, the ONA over the past twenty years? Because of our aims, among which are:

(1) to use our Dark Tradition to create sinister Adepts and, over a long period of causal Time, aid and enhance and create that new, more evolved, human species of which genuine Sinister Adepts may be considered to be the phenotype;

(2) to use the sinister dialectic (and thus Aeonic Magick and genuine Sinister Arts) to aid and enhance and make possible entirely new types of societies for human beings, with these new societies being based on new tribes and a tribal way of living where the only law is that of our Dark Warriors, which is the Law of The Sinister-Numen;

(3) to aid, encourage, and bring about – by both practical and esoteric means (such as subversion, revolution, and Dark Sorcery) – the breakdown and the downfall of existing societies, and thus to replace the tyranny of nations and States, and their impersonal governments, by our new tribal societies and our Law of the Sinister-Numen.

Source: Brief Guide to the Esoteric Philosophy of the ONA

For these aims to be achieved, the ONA - quite simply - needs people. It needs recruits. It requires more and more human beings to be assimilated to the ONA Way and into the ONA collective. It needs people who can change themselves - or who can be changed, by us - and who therefore cease to be mundanes, or who develope the inner sinister-changeling that they have always felt was dormant within themselves.

These people - our potential recruits - need information about us; reliable information; informative information. The days of expecting potential recruits to work everything out for themselves are now long gone; partly because we now have so many new recruits, partly because of the Internet thingy, partly because there are better, more sinister, things for our new brothers and sisters to do, and partly because we are in the third phase of our long-term strategy.


We - the living ONA - have evolved, adapted, over the past two decades. Thus, the old way of expecting each new recruit, each new Initiate, to spend many, many, months discovering for themselves who and what we really are is no longer, in most instances, appropriate, or productive, in the sinister sense. Now - instead of spending a very long time gathering and sifting through ONA MSS, distilling truth from fable, finding mythos beyond myth, and discovering the esoteric essence behind some outward, useful, causal form we may have used - the new recruit can just get on with beginning their esoteric and their practical sinister training, and which training is still individual, and unique to each individual, even if - or especially if - they belong to some sinister tribe of ours.

Crucially, this countering of certain common - certain mundane - misconceptions about us, does not mean that we have ceased to be elitist; that our training for recruits, our sinister techniques, have become easy or ceased to be difficult, heretical, and dangerous. Many recruits will still fail to meet our high standards, as many will give up, after some time, for whatever reason, or because of some delusion about themselves that they believe in or which makes them comfortable and safe, again.

All it means is that we are now actively, openly, recruiting [1] - recruiting, training, the best, the most sinister, the heretical, the defiant. But it still takes some causal Time - a long, hard, difficult, testing, dangerous, time - for new recruits to pass-out from our boot-camp to become part of our elite sinister association, and this joining is still entirely based on individual achievement, on sinister experience, both practical and esoteric, and on a sinister commitment to our Aeonic tactics and our long-term, strategic, aims.




Mundane Misconceptions About The Order of Nine Angles


Introductory Diatribe


Many mundane misconceptions about the ONA are the result of one or more of the following:

(1) Ignorance - the person or persons who repeat a misconception have simply not bothered to do any real and in-depth research, and have just read a few items, almost always on the Internet, about or by the ONA. In their ignorance, they either jump to unwarranted conclusions, or just mundanely in their laziness repeat what they have read or heard somewhere.

Even if the person or persons reads a lot about the subject, they never, ever, bother to contact an ONA member, Adept or Master/Mistress - or one of the ONA OG - to obtain first-hand, real-life, knowledge about the ONA. That is, they just cannot be bothered to do good old fashioned "leg work", in the real world.

(2) Prejudice - the person or persons has/have a preconceived opinion or belief about the ONA, and simply, and illogically and in their mundaneness, act on that prejudice. Often their prejudice derives from being associated with, and emotionally attached to, some existing group or organization, such as the CoS or the ToSers.

(3) Trashy Internet/paperback psychology - the person or persons has/have read some articles about psychology (usually via the medium of the Internet) and/or they have read some books "popularizing" this Magian-infested pretentious and speculative non-science, and then - with the usual arrogance and delusion of mundanes - believe they have "understood" the ONA and/or those involved with it, on the basis of banally projecting some causal and often Magian abstractions (some labels and -isms) onto the ONA and/or those involved with it.

(4) Failure - the person or persons has/have failed the make the grade, having flirted for a while with the ONA. Having failed in their quest to become of the ONA - for instance, because they were too cowardly to do practical sinister deeds, or because they did not have the elan, the fortitude, the grit, to undertake and pass the basic ONA physical tests [3] - the person or persons want to "prove" to themselves (and others) that the ONA is "wrong", or a "fake" (or whatever) and so start spreading rumors/disinformation, and so on.

Sometimes, such failures join other Occult groups, or even become Nazarenes, which groups and which religion they, in their anger and delusion, use as a stick to try and beat the ONA with, in order to try and make themselves feel better.

(5) Pretentiousness - the person or persons has/have a desire to appear knowledgeable about the ONA and the Occult in general, and so makes grandiose and often fatuous statements about the ONA and/or those involved with it.


        We list here only the nine most common - the most mundane - misconceptions made by mundanes regarding The Order of Nine Angles/The Order of The Nine Angles. There are dozens of other common misconceptions about us, which we really cannot be bothered to correct.



Some Mundane Misconceptions


Mundane Misconception #1 - The name of the Nine Angles was taken from, or based, on Aquino's Nine Angles Rite, as used by LaVey's Church of Satan

This is a version of the mundane fallacy called The Magian in the Machine, where mundanes, influenced by, under the control of, or deluded by, Magian abstractions, have to - just have to - assume that everything relates to, is related to, or is derived from, something Magian, or some Magian distortion, such as the perverted qabalistic traditions and the pantomime "magick" used by groups such as the ToSers and the CoS, and by people such as Crowley.

ONA verity:  given in numerous ONA MSS, which quite obviously the mundanes believing in and/or parroting or committing this fallacy have never even bothered to read. MSS such as The Meaning of The Nine Angles (Part 1 and 2) from which this is a quote:

To understand The Nine Angles is to understand the cosmology of causal and acausal - of the Cosmos itself having a causal continuum (a causal Universe), and an acausal continuum (an acausal Universe). The Nine Angles are a nexion between the two, which means these nine angles have or can presence life; that is, they possess, or are animated by, acausal energy, from  the acausal continuum.
There are nine angles because there are nine dimensions involved in all the nexions we currently know - the four dimensions of, or which re-present, the causal continuum, and the five dimensions of, or which re-present, the acausal continuum, and which "five dimensions" form the basis for genuine dark sorcery, that is, the willed bringing forth of acausal energy into the causal by means of a nexion.

The four causal dimensions are, of course, the three spatial dimensions (at right angles to each other) and the one dimension of causal, linear, Time.
Our term nine-angles thus represents something innovative, sophisticated, numinous, alive - and appropriate to the new sinister Aeon soon to arise - unlike the term nine angles used by others, such as the ToSers, which just refers to a dead two-dimensional geometrical shape.


Mundane Misconception #2 - The ONA's Septenary System is just a version of the qabalistic Tree of Life.

This is yet another version of the widespread mundane fallacy The Magian in the Machine, mentioned above.

ONA verity:

According to the aural traditions of the ONA, The Septenary System, with its Tree of Wyrd, is much older than the Magian qabala with its ten spheres comprising the Magian Tree of the Lifeless.

Early, Western, alchemical writings contain many allusions to an esoteric septenary system, as do some of the works of Robert Fludd. However, according to the aural traditions of the ONA, the Western Septenary System as inherited and as developed by the ONA and its reclusive predecessors, had its origins in the works of early Arab and Muslim alchemists (who predated Western alchemy) -
"...who had not only posited a system of seven fundamental stages or elements – al-ajsad al-sabaah – but who had also constructed a system of nine emanations of “The One” which included these seven elements plus two others which were quite distinct by virtue of having different aspects, or types of, or sources of, time itself, as described in the alchemical manuscript Al-Kitab al-Aflak." Source: Emanations of a Mage by Anton Long, 118 yf

Thus, the ONA regards the qabalistic Tree of the Lifeless as a horrid Magian distortion of the genuine esoteric tradition manifest in the Septenary System.

Furthermore, the ONA have never claimed to have "invented" the Septenary system - only to have made public various aspects of it; and to have extended it in some particular and important ways.



Mundane Misconception #3 - the ONA symbol is just a combination of the an inverted pentagram with two additional points.

Note that no explanation is ever given, by those making or repeating this misconception, of just how to construct the ONA sigil, in two-dimensional form, from an inverted pentagram by just adding two points.

ONA verity:

Considered esoterically, this sigil not only re-presents the Septenary in two-dimensional form [the seven points (of various angles) which touch the outer circle] but also the various pathways which join them.

However, the actual ONA sigil, as used by the ONA, is a four-dimensional one: that is, the two-dimensional sigil is constructed in three-dimensions, within a sphere, which three-dimensional construct itself changes, thus mimicking the change which is causal Time. This change is both a simple change of perspective (for example, the movement and rotation of the sphere and the construct within it) and also a “mapping” (that is, a causal “distortion”) of both the sphere and the construct within it). This mapping is essentially a change of, a transformation of, the regular Cartesian three-dimensional co-ordinate system, and to a limited extent this can be understood, and re-presented, by reference to the mathematical change of metric in causal Space-Time.



Mundane Misconception #4 - the main ONA book is The Black Book of Satan, followed by NAOS.

This is known as the fallacy of the exoteric because those committing this fallacy cannot distinguish between esoteric and exoteric.


ONA verity:  Both The Black Book of Satan, and Naos, are basic exoteric works, designed for novices and Initiates; for those individuals just beginning their own individual Occult quest. As such, they are or they may not be useful and interesting to such individuals.

The fact is that there is no definitive or main ONA book, or work, or some specific recommended collection of MSS, given the individual nature of The Seven-Fold Sinister Way, and given the nature and diversity of that sinister association known exoterically as the ONA, a diversity evident in our sinister tribes, our traditional nexions, our reclusive LHP Adepts, and in our small collectives of sinister empaths.

What there is, are hundreds - possibly, now, thousands - of individual, and sometimes related, ONA MSS and works, which deal with a variety of esoteric topics (in an exoteric or esoteric way). The vast majority of these MSS and works are by Anton Long, and they are for the guidance of individuals belonging to, or associated with, or interested in the ONA - the emphasis being on guidance.



Mundane Misconception #5 - The Dark Gods of the ONA are derived from the fictional works of HP Lovecraft.


ONA verity: According to our aural traditions, our Mythos of the Dark Gods - of living-beings living in the acausal continuum - is much older than the pseudo-mythology manufactured by Lovecraft.

In addition, our mythos of these acausal sinister entities is quite different in almost all respects from the beings described by Lovecraft. Lovecraft's beings - such as Cthulhu - are loathsome, almost primal, physical creatures, in the ordinary causal continuum. In complete contrast, the Dark Gods are acausal beings, some of whom can manifest in the causal continuum, and many of whom possess the ability to shape-shift and to assume human form. They can thus appear as beautiful human women, or handsome human men. Furthermore, among these acausal beings is the being known, from our human mythology, as Satan. [ Refer, for instance, to the ONA MS Ontology and Theology of Traditional Satanism. ]  Thus, the ONA mythos, of these Dark Gods, is a sinister, distinctly Satanic, mythos, whereas Lovecraft's pseudo-mythology is not. [ For an early ONA reference to Satan as one of these Dark Gods, refer to the fictional work, Falcifer, Lord of Darkness, originally written in 1974 CE and first published in 1976 CE. ]

The ONA have never claimed to have "invented", or to have made public for the first time, the legends and myths about the Dark Gods, only to have explicated them, given them a rational, scientific, basis, and thus codified the tradition into a genuine Mythos appropriate to our times.

Furthermore, the ONA acknowledge that Lovecraft may have somehow stumbled upon some of the ancient, esoteric, legends and myths about The Dark Gods, through, for example, his own research, or perhaps via the medium of dreams (where sometimes the psyche of an individual can obtain intimations of the acausal and experience some effects of acausal energy). But if he did, then either it was a distorted, incomplete, garbled version, or he himself, perhaps for literary purposes, penned his own imaginative version of such intimations.

Moreover, the "names" given for various Dark God entities, in such works as NAOS, are useful exoteric symbols (note the words useful symbols) intended for Initiates. That is, they are not re-presentations, in the causal, of what are essentially acausal entities who/which cannot be described in causal terms, but which may be better apprehended or re-presented in part via esoteric vibration/chant. The ONA make it quite clear that it is for the Initiate to discover if this is indeed the case - via their own practical experience.


Mundane Misconception #6 - The ONA does not really exist, and is just an Internet phenomenon.


This is the mundane fallacy of the deluded middle, so named because the deluded middle is the muddled mundane who believes this canard, and passes it on, usually in that illusory realm, cyberland, where the sub-species Mundanus Mundanus thrive and prosper (in their dreams).

ONA verity: 

(1) The ONA is a sinister, world-wide, association of sinister tribes, traditional nexions, and reclusive Adepts, many of whom do not have, and do not want, an Internet presence, and many of whom - as befits sinister, heretical, esoteric, subversive groups and individuals - do not desire publicity of any kind, desiring instead to be illusive.

(2) As mentioned elsewhere:

The majority of those who are part of or who are associated with an existing traditional ONA nexion (group/Temple) remain hidden, as those nexions themselves remain hidden; for that is how it has been for many, many, decades. And that is how most of our sinister work is undertaken – covertly, in secret.

In addition, some of our tribes do not overtly, in public, present themselves as “sinister” or openly affiliate themselves with the ONA. They just get on with their subversive job of subversion; of being feral; of being real outlaws; of living on the edge; of gaining control of their own local area; of making money for themselves and their tribe; of gaining respect among their own communities; and of generally being a pain in the ass for their local mundanes and for the “law enforcement” agencies of mundane “law and order”. That is, they are living the sinister way, not writing about it; not talking about it, on the Internet or elsewhere.

Furthermore, we have a variety of nyms, now – some still esoteric; some just emerging into the light of the mundane world, such as Dreccian. Thus, some of our tribes, and some of our traditional nexions, will use one of these nyms, instead of using the traditional term, and title, ONA.

Source:  Frequently Asked Questions About The Order of Nine Angles, Version 1.09

(3) Our tribes have and seek to expand their own territory. Many of our traditional nexions conduct ceremonial rites and ceremonies, and hold sunedrions, open only to members of good standing and of proven loyalty.


Mundane Misconception #7 - The ONA is a fascist and/or a neo-nazi, anti-Semitic, Satanist group.

ONA verity:  The ONA is heretical and subversive, in both the practical and the esoteric sense. Therefore, whatever is heretical, in a particular period of human history, and whatever is or may be useful in a subversive way, we can, or may, or will, use.

Some of our members and associates have, in the past, used the form of overt National Socialism, as others have used - and some still use - the ethical National-Socialism of NS groups such as Reichsfolk. Some others have also used that causal -ology that mundanes and other term fascism.

Our answer is: so what? The ONA is an amoral, esoteric, Left Hand Path association. As such,
"...there is nothing that is not permitted – nothing that is forbidden or restricted. That is, the LHP means the individual takes sole responsibility for their actions and their quest. (The LHP – An Analysis. ONA MS dated c. 1991 CE)
Thus, if some of our members or associates want to identify with, or use, some form such as National Socialism, for whatever reason (exoteric or esoteric), that is their choice. If some of our members or associates believe in such an -ism or such an -ology, that is also their choice, which they are free, at liberty, to make. Their belief may or may not change, over causal time, and a result of their experiences, practical, and Occult. Or it may not. Their wyrd is their wyrd.

As for the ONA being anti-Semitic - the hue and cry of anti-semitism is one of the war-cries of the Magian and of the mundanes following them or manipulated by them, is based on a causal abstraction designed to restrict, contain, tyrannize, and control individuals - their behavior and even their thoughts - and is used to socially engineer a particular type of tyrannical society, for mundanes. This particular causal abstraction derives from the psychology and the sociology of the Magian - a set of causal abstractions and causal theories, based on the fundamental error of what we may call ignorant (or arrant) projectionism, which is when an individual or individuals project some causal abstraction onto the external world, and/or onto human beings, and then "interpret" the external world, and/or human beings according to such abstractions, proceeding then to delude themselves in having "understood" the external world, and/or human beings. We say: psychology and sociology - and all such kindred things - are bunk, and that knowledge, understanding, and judgment of others, is and can only be individual, as result of direct, practical, experience, discovering, learning and personal interaction. The judgment and opinion of others, and all causal theories, -isms, ideas and --ologies, are irrelevant.


However, the ONA is decidedly, defiantly, and proudly anti-Magian. That is, opposed to the delusions, the illusions, the abstractions, the distortions, and the ethos, of the Magian. As stated in an ONA MS:

" Magians are a specific type of human being – they are the natural exploiters of others, possessed of an instinctive type of human cunning and an avaricious personal nature. Over the past millennia they have developed a talent for manipulating other human beings, especially Western mundanes, by means of abstractions – such as usury and “freedom” and marxian/capitalist “social engineering/planning” – and by hoaxes/illusions, such as that of “democracy”.  The easily manipulated nature of Western mundanes, and the Magian talent for such things as usury and litigation/spiel, their ability to cunningly manipulate, and their underlying charlatanesque (and almost always cowardly nature), have given them wealth, power and influence....  

We are [the] scourge of the mundanes, scourge of the Magian, breaker of tyrannical abstractions: scourge and breaker of all that has, for millennia, prevented us from becoming the divine, the numinous, the Cosmic, species we have the potential to be. "  Our Sinister Character


The ONA regards such things as the qabala, the demonology of grimoires (such as the Lesser Key of Solomon), The Golden Dawn, the Church of Satan, and The Temple of Set, as Magian distortions, corruptions, and/or inventions, and thus as detrimental to the genuine esoteric, Occult, development and evolution of the individual.

We further regard the Magian ethos - exoterically now evident in such things as the new Amerikan world empire (The New World Order) and in nation-States with their laws and Police-forces - as tyrannical and directly and violently opposed to our evolution into a new, higher, species of human being.


A further, non-Occult, discussion of the Magian, and the Magian ethos, can be found in such exoteric works as Selected Essays Regarding The White Hordes of Homo Hubris.



Mundane Misconception #8 - The ONA is just one person, who uses a variety of pseudonyms.

Among the ONA OG, this is called the Aquino fallacy, because Aquino was the first person to publicly make this fallacy, nearly a quarter of a century ago. Interestingly, Aquino himself stopped making this fallacy around 2000 CE, although mundanes still commit this fallacy today.


ONA verity: 

(1) Enough diverse people, around the world, associated with or members of ONA nexions and tribes (past and present; working or defunct), are now known for even the most ordinary and lazy mundane (using only the Internet) to be able to see through this particular fallacy. From WSA352 in the States (especially Chloe and Kayla), to the Temple of Them in Australasia, to nexions and individuals in Iceland, Russia, Italy, and elsewhere; from Beesty Boy to Michael Ford to Ariadne S to Carolyne to Saturnyan... And so, etcetera.

(2) While some pseudonyms may be attributable to Anton Long (and names such as Stephen Brown come to mind, here), other pseudonyms used by ONA members or associates (such as DL9 or PointyHat or Caladius) which some people have claimed are used by AL, are most certainly not attributable to Anton Long, a fact which those making such ludicrous claims could easily have found if they had bothered to find and ask the individuals using such 'nyms.


While we have no formal OldAeon-type membership (with an HQ, fees payable and some silly membership card) - but are instead an informal esoteric, subversive, heretical, association, a sinister Way, a sinister methodology, and a sinister mythos - there are currently around several hundred individuals, world-wide, who may be said to be members of, or closely and/or directly associated with, the ONA, and perhaps a thousand or so others indirectly associated with us, or sufficiently influenced or inspired by us and our Way to directly or indirectly aid us and/or our goals, and/or to produce some works (magickal, practical, sinister, or artistic) inspired by us and/or our sinister ethos and our Mythos.

The numbers, fundamentally, are irrelevant - for our influence far outweighs our numbers, as is befitting and esoterically correct, given that we are an elitist group.




Mundane Misconception #9 - The founder of the ONA converted to Islam, and left the ONA. He is a nutter who changes religions like some people change their clothes.

ONA verity:  The individual who gave the outer, the exoteric, name The Order of Nine Angles to a small LHP association in the early 1970's CE, has remained steadfastly committed to The Sinister Way that lies at the heart of the ONA. Thus, for over forty years, Anton Long has been involved with the ONA, never deviating from striving to achieve certain sinister Aeonic goals.

Interestingly, Anton Long never ascribes - and has never ascribed - any title or Magickal Grade to himself; all his profuse esoteric writings, and missives, are simply signed Anton Long, ONA. This is in stark contrast to almost everyone else, associated at some level with, or involved at some level with, Occult organizations, especially LHP and Satanic ones, which individuals almost invariably ascribe some grand title to themselves, such as High Priest, or Adept, or Magister, or even Magus.

As for outer, temporal, changes - seen and described by some mundane or some mundanes, or by some Magians - so what? The judging of such a particular individual by means of such outer, temporal, changes is, for us,
a basic but effective test of mundane-ness, especially among those who describe themselves as Occultists and “satanists”. Have these “Occultists” and “satanists” the instinct, the occult ability – the innate character of one of our sinister kind – to see beyond mere causal form, to the acausal, and thus perceive the reality of one shapeshifting sinister individual?

Naturally, mundanes will still continue, in their delusion and ignorance, making mundane judgments about people based on such causal illusions - unless and until, that is, they change themselves, and evolve, by a means of liberation such as our Sinister Way, and thus discover, perceive, such causal forms for the restrictions, the tyranny, that they are.




DL9 & PointyHat
Order of Nine Angles
121 Year of Fayen




Notes

[1] Recruit openly, as in publicly encourage candidates to begin their own sinister quest, according to the guidelines we have made available.

Training, as (a) for traditional nexions/aspirant Adepts, outlined in Guide to The Seven-Fold Sinister Way; and (b) for aspiring Dreccians (those who live by The Law of The Sinister-Numen), sinister living as outlined in documents such as We, The Drecc, The War Against The Mundanes, and Our Sinister Character.

[2] The basic physical tests and challenges for aspiring members of the ONA are outlined in Guide to The Seven-Fold Sinister Way:

The minimum standards (for men) are: (a) walking thirty-two miles, in hilly terrain, in under seven hours while carrying a pack weighing at least 30 lbs; (b) running twenty-six miles in four hours; (c) cycling two hundred or more miles in twelve hours. [Those who have already achieved such goals in such activities should set themselves more demanding goals.]

For women, the minimum acceptable standards are: (a) walking twenty-seven miles in under seven hours while carrying a pack weighing at least 15 lbs. (b) running twenty-six miles in four and a half hours; (c) cycling one hundred and seventy miles in twelve hours.]

Note, in particular, that these are just the minimum acceptable standards, and that "those who have already achieved such goals in such activities should set themselves more demanding goals." Thus, a competent male cyclist would be expected, for example, to cycle around 350 miles in 24 hours, and a competent male walker would be expected to walk around or over 100 miles in 48 hours.

Also note that even the ONA Grade Ritual of Magus - undertaken only by older folk involved with the ONA for at least three decades - requires the individual to walk 300 miles in 15 days or less, in a wilderness area, carrying all equipment necessary, and then live alone in that area for six months or longer.




Further Reading:

A - Misconceptions

1) The ONA In Historical and Esoteric Context
2) The Septenary, Crowley, and The Origins of the ONA
3) Commentary on Dreamers of the Dark
4) Ontology and Theology of Traditional Satanism
5) Guide to The Philosophy of the ONA
6) Ontology and Theology of Traditional Satanism
7) Defending the ONA?



B - Training and Ethos

1) Our Sinister Character
2) Our Law of The Sinister-Numen
3) We, The Drecc
4) Complete Guide To The Seven-Fold Sinister Way
5) War Against The Mundanes



Acknowledgments:
The authors acknowledge the help and assistance of Anton Long, who read a draft of this document,
and who made some helpful suggestions and a few small additions